Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-17
OF the same is authority and Law to her
follow. rs, and her word Is sacredly obey

OF the same is authority and Law to her
follows rs, and her word Is sacredIy obey
ed. The husband then alleges that
Martha McWhirter has complete and
absolute control over the minds aud wills
OF the entire band, and that his wife be-
came member 10 January, 1879, at the
solicitation and request Of her mother,
and was so iDfueHced by her mother in
all things concerning her domestic rela-
tions, and in his temporary absence per-
mitted the band to hold their meetings In
his house, and encouraged them to teach,
inculcste and instill
THHIR ACCURsRD DOCTRINE
in the minds of his wife and children. On
his return home be informed the band,
through Martha McWnirter, that no more
meetings would be held at his house.
He then recites that In 1881, having gone
e. Central America, he wrote for his wife
aud children, bat that through the in
fuence Of the McWhirter woman they
were prevented from going to him, and so
intense was the hatred of the band
towards him that 3 barrel of oranges
sent by him to his children was taken and
destroyed; that two years back while
lying sick In Bolton his wife refused to
visit or comfort him, though importuned
TO do so. He then charges that his wife
wes Influenced by her mother to refuse to
re urn and live with him, and that his
children are under her absolute cont Oh,
and that she hires them out to DO hard
and mental labor, sends them to private
houses to scour rooms and clean houses,
wash dirty clothes, and receiving the
money for their services, and has failed
and refused to send them to school; and
further, that she has them engaged IS
servants in the Central hotel, which is
run by the Ssnctin d Band, and at which
he charges she has knowingly
RECEIVED ABANDONED WOMEN
and low Characters as guests of the hotel,
thus throwing his children into improper
associations. He then asked the court
to grant him a divorce and award him the
custody Of his children that they
may be properly educated. The EVIL
dence adduced on the trial WAS corrobo-
rative of oil the husbands charges,
old lady McWhirter herself testifying that
she remained away from the bedside Of
her dying husband, and did not attend his
funeral, or that Of her son, whe was shot
ut Rogers, in this county, some foury ars
sgo. The wife, Ada Raymond, testified
as to the peculiar tenets Of the band, and
her daughter Hattie, only fourteen years
old, under the influence of the training
she had received, declared that she was
ssnc.ihed, and that it would be sinful for
her to marry q man who did not believe
as she did. She declared that she hated
her father, but could give no other reason
for so doing than that he was
AN UNBzLIEvRR.
The courthouse was throDged with
deeply interested assemblage all day aud
it was far into the evening when the jury
f aally retired to make up verdict.
After half an hours absence they re-
turned with verdict that they found the
plaiatiff's material allegations true and
declared that he was entitled to the Gus
tody of his children. The boy George
was secured by his father few days
previous to has making application fog
divorce, and is now in Michigan being ed
ucated. The verdict Is generally approved
by all our citizens, whose sympathies have |
ali along been with the husband. The
case attracted the IN Ist marked interest
on account Of the previous occurrences
detailed above and is regarded here as the
glorious promise of an esrlV disruption Of
the band whose evil Influences have |
wrecked SO macy happy homes and
brought desolation into the lives of some
of our best, beloved and Worthiest people.
Judge Blackburn TO- day rendered his de- |
cree in accordance with the finding of the |
Jury and awarded the children to the hus- |
band.